Can YouTubers Described Colors To A Blind Person?

Tommy Edison, who’s been blind since birth, asked KZbinrs at VidCon 2016 to describe colors to him to in a way that he would be able to guess them correctly.
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[@drawnkitten]

I thought purple was blue

[@alexsepelenco9902]

Same

[@urszulamank3916]

I thought it was grey

[@IStoleYourSandwich]

I thought it was brown, but more on the beige side

[@rzul]

I thought it was green

[@findogg9052]

Same

[@LightningGraphics]

That was interesting for us to guess too, and I can see colour

[@clintross7778]

Saaaaame

[@denizz8576]

I guessed yellow, blue, and green

[@bnerd1]

i geussed yellow, white and red

[@duqking8310]

I guessed all of them surprisingly! It wasn't too hard.

[@momchilvasilev2526]

You could have fed a hungry child in Africa with all the ink you've waisted in high school writing Us in color

[@Jessie1Dx]

I think the yellow description was really good

[@MarcelVos]

That's interesting, because I was 100% sure that that was going to be red.

[@deadfish6408]

Lanaaaa

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

The guy who made it has a phd in like biochemistry or something

[@huhjanus]

I also thought red at first but when he said happiness, I was 99% sure that it was yellow

[@SIeipner]

A Yellow bathroom? That's a bathroom from the 60's/70's. No one has yellow bathroom today, its mostly white.

[@besmart]

This was really fun! Thanks for having me on again, Tommy. My clues were SO not good, sorry :)

[@Pisanggeni]

First like and reply after 3 Years

[@wacobjhitney]

2nd reply after 5 years

[@iswiftyfox8997]

@@wacobjhitney yo

[@BatsBeyondStar]

3rd reply after 6 years

[@hashflame]

4th reply after 7 years muahahaha

[@SquirrelForce]

I always associated the color red with anger. Pink was what I was guessing with the last one.

[@obaxobl9887]

edgy

[@johnathonwaymire9483]

Well it was warm, so pink would be off of my list, and red is anger. So I would've guessed orange.

[@martingrof1685]

www.google.ca/search?q=color+wheel+emotions&biw=1920&bih=974&tbm=isch&imgil=UZC2EkPmTOLphM%253A%253Bj7CPUD5MHewiQM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.writeincolor.com%25252F2011%25252F03%25252F26%25252Fplutchiks-color-wheel-of-emotion%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=UZC2EkPmTOLphM%253A%252Cj7CPUD5MHewiQM%252C_&usg=__NlUJC-D-1lWT4fi7XET84ir7f4w%3D&ved=0ahUKEwjfitfQsYnQAhUF5SYKHeaLCxYQyjcIKg&ei=C4AZWJ_ZN4XKmwHml66wAQ#imgrc=UZC2EkPmTOLphM%3A

[@SquirrelForce]

Martin Grof Humans are more complex than that. Different people will associate colors with different things. That doesn't mean they are wrong.

[@martingrof1685]

SquirrelForce I know, but I think it is a good way to see how the colors interact, for a blind person. So a blind person could understand colors have shades. I have mild synesthesia, and that charts pretty much sums up the colors I feel with emotion.

[@oaige]

The girl describing purple oh my🙄

[@Aryzo]

"Also the color that you *see* in bathrooms sometimes" XDD

[@BrokenG-String]

aryzo I thought he meant the yellow sign that says "caution wet floor" lmaoo not piss

[@siukong]

Chris Reebs I thought he meant rubber duckies.

[@hacioglualper]

The thing is he can’t see

[@dullbananas9901]

peeeeeeeee

[@mrsmrmrsmr]

Red!!

[@patrickhodson8715]

"I get a gold star, right?" "No, a red one." XD

[@TommyEdisonXP]

Big thanks to everyone who was in the video. Check out their channels and subscribe! Here are their links in order of appearance: Joe Hanson - It’s Okay to Be Smart kzbin.info Vanessa Hill - Brain Craft kzbin.info Nicola Foti - SoundlyAwake kzbin.info Anna Rothchild - Gross Science kzbin.info Jackie Koppell - NewsyNews kzbin.info

[@cuberesolver9195]

I can see and I only did as good as you. You are very good with colors.

[@hatty7090]

This was a really interesting idea. When I really think about it though, you can probably form word associations but you never really know what colours actually look like right? I'm also interested... when you can tell there is a light source, does that come from your eyes or some other way of knowing?

[@superawesomepeople5667]

Do Blind people Chang there clothes everyday

[@destrierofdark_]

This would be an awesome game to play with a quick-thinking novelist.

[@fberumen2307]

Wtf superAwesomePeople of course they can smell, their clothes get loosy too (wearing warm out of the dryer jeans vs that 2week old you know you used a few days ago) their clothes get dirty as well, why do you change your clothes? Only to gain acceptance of other people with cool clothes? Well, OK.

[@soundlyawake]

This was so much fun, thank you for having me be a part of it!

[@iswiftyfox8997]

Yo

[@Gert169]

you high as a kite in this :P

[@chrislarson5097]

Imagine a surface. This surface could be smooth, bumpy, rough, jagged, etc. colors are like those different textures, but for light.

[@dr.zoidberg4313]

You would be awesome to smoke with.

[@perotx1512]

+Chris Larson When I was trying to think of a way to describe colors to a blind person, that was my idea.

[@nefertitimontoya]

This is amazing and needs more upvotes!!!! I'm going to use this whenever I need to describe colours, thanks

[@MargaritaMagdalena]

I don't think that would make color any clearer to a blind person.

[@TommyEdisonXP]

Watch my collab with Nicola on his channel: "Can I Guess Sounds Described By A Blind Guy?" kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoqVfneOpceUoZo

[@tomasgomes8793]

Missed white, thought of green too. Nice video!

[@dot4464]

I thought of blue, I got almost all of the wrong lol

[@tomasgomes8793]

Daisy Bennett I found the other ones easy :p

[@CandleAshes]

I thought white originally, but then she lost me and I switched to blue

[@tomasgomes8793]

CandleAshes Yeah, she didn't do it very well.

[@philinator71]

I thought orange.

[@JacobElordisBathWater]

What would happen if you gave a blind person LSD?

[@culwin]

He talked about this like 2 videos ago

[@TommyEdisonXP]

What Do Blind People Experience on Psychedelics? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6a7dYh_eJd5ja8

[@theamazingpapaya6092]

+TommyEdisonXP lol nigga how u type dat u blind AF

[@Nilguiri]

+The Amazing Papaya He seems to manage a lot better than you.

[@ieatthestage]

probably with his hands or something

[@TheJoukai]

I feel like the description of white was all over the place; I don't think natural, mellow, or serene; those sound more like descriptions of the color blue. White is more plain, formal, neutral, or default. I thought it was white until she started describing it as natural and calm.

[@alberich3099]

Ok here a little bullshittery. As white is the composition of all colors, it is only correct to desribe it as "all over the place". But for real I know what you mean, however with sweet I was more of a orangey green guy.

[@J0EB0B555]

I think she was trying to get as much info in as possible when she would have been better off with accurate info. I knew it was white the entire time just because she said pure.

[@davidwalz94]

@@J0EB0B555 Sounds racist

[@natem1579]

She definitely threw me off with her saying it makes you feel happy, i feel like its just as likely to make you feel sterile and numb.

[@DanilegoPlays]

Yeah, and she said it tastes sweet? That makes me immediately think of pink

[@emilyflynn1806]

i got so many of these wrong and im not blind wtf

[@teemuhaapala7623]

3/5

[@Leanne_w]

Well what a silly comment, what as you not being blind got to do with anything? Its not like they shown the colour.

[@razmuzen1090]

@@Leanne_w Well non blind people have actual experience of the colors and can associate them to some feelings due to cultur and biological similarities. Tommy on the other hand can basically never fully understand color so his thoughts of colors are based on what people have told him.

[@Leanne_w]

@@razmuzen1090 I know that. That wasn’t what my point was. My point was about the original comment saying she couldn’t guess the colour and she’s not blind. No colours were shown.

[@92nicu17]

... I, as a sighted person, could not get purple from that girl. Hah. WHAT!? Happy, full of positive emotion, from RED!? ... It's the color of danger, damn it! XD Sure, also the color of passionate love, but... FULL OF POSITIVE EMOTIONS!? XD

[@al.threee]

"Which means that I get a gold star, right?" "Well no.. a red one" 😂😂😂😂

[@Kodafluffycloud]

Al3 was just about to comment this too haha best ending!

[@arabwaluigi5248]

The 2nd girl was so bad lmao

[@Louisa0145]

Yung Falafel i agree. kinda made me mad how terrible she was

[@ciderfan823]

That was the only color I didn't get.

[@Sunshine-ws2gf]

The rules were that you could say how the colour makes you feel. If that’s what she came up with then that’s okay. it was filmed on the spot too which makes it harder to come up with something to say. Also you’re not the one playing the game and your life doesn’t depend on guessing correctly. Stop being so demanding lmao

[@tfwnoyandere]

i got it within five seconds lol

[@JeffBezosOfficial]

That’s literally the only one I got 😂

[@austinmolitor7283]

This is called the explanatory gap.

[@DFJW45]

Can a blind person understand why people are judged for their appearance?

[@TommyEdisonXP]

Great question. Talking about that in a few weeks in a future video.

[@DFJW45]

Sounds good, thanks Tommy!

[@wild.berryz]

jared white good question

[@avanicole6700]

Now this is going to sound stupid, but what is your favorite color

[@dirigibility]

Good question, I wonder if he has one just based on how people describe it.

[@maryammenalagha8989]

Ava Nicole orange

[@Toooheuueuehdbhq]

pink!

[@cyan1294]

blue, red, violet, pink (its a manly color) orange, white, magenta, indigo. i like many colors

[@zoeydelaney6679]

Ava Nicole teal and pink

[@Pika72328]

I missed the brown one... this was very fun. I loved the description for white!

[@FoxrosePettipaw]

Interesting that that girl said sweet and mellow for white. I've never really thought of white as being sweet, more like crisp and clean, maybe even a bit bitter. I would love to know what she was thinking of when she said that. Super interesting. Great video as usual! :D

[@Desterian]

Evan Carter Maybe she started thinking of sugar or something like that. I think of a sophisticated color, crisp and clean like you said. Sophisticated because of schools tending to favor white, as well as hospitals and laboratories.

[@BabeLightyear]

I was thinking like vanilla ice cream or sugar

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

when he said brown, I thought green

[@kobeduhgoat1442]

Same

[@JackAldred]

key word 'earthy'

[@ha1vorsen]

Jack Aldred ...grass

[@JackAldred]

Ken Bailey Earthy typically refers to soil, which is brown.

[@Backonos]

i dont see green in other people nearly as much as brown

[@jflsdknf]

The best way I could describe sight, images and colors to a blind person is as different strengths and concentrations of light combined to make images of what's in front of you. Tommy said he has the ability to detect light so that's something he might be able to connect with sight. Those blurry light forms or shadows, he should imagine them becoming sharper and more varied.

[@NimbusTheCloud]

do you understand the concept of blue and yellow making green? or that like mixing diffrent colors can produce a new color? Like striking a chord on the piano.

[@darrenmalthouse7526]

Love that you had Joe on here! It's brilliant when you can link things you like!

[@burt591]

From an objective point of view is actually impossible to describe a color to a blind person, all this things that they mention were completely subjective

[@Predated2]

not really though. A lot of colors are objectively linked to something. For example: red is linked with heat, love, anger, passion and danger(its also one of the easiest to guess). Green is linked to freshness, safety and nature(although, I guess nature would be a dead give away in this case). Blue is linked to calmness and serenity. Sure, the personal feelings might be subjective, but there are objective feelings linked to a color.

[@scottdavie7057]

@@Predated2 Even the "personal feelings" aren't really subjective. The way our brains visually interpret a certain wavelength might be different (so blue might look like what they consider red to someone else, etc). However, our brains respond to wavelengths, so colours with longer wavelengths like red evoke thoughts/feelings of passion - anger, love, while colours like blue with shorter wavelengths are more soothing and calming, even if we don't see them the same. I'm curious if people with cortical blindness (blindsight) who don't experience vision due to a problem with the brain, rather than with the eyes (but can still be aware of movement, obstacles, etc. even though they don't "see" it) would have emotional responses to colours.

[@kaiyaryberg3219]

Brown- Rich, Organic, Wholesome Gray- Cloudy, Ashy, Plain Black- Dark, Serious, Inky White- Pure, Clean, Fresh Purple- Royal, Strong, Mysterious Blue- Calming, Breezy, Reassuring Green- Tropical, Healthy, Honest Yellow- Bright, Cheerful, Warm Orange- Playful, Young, Energetic Red- Powerful, Passionate/strong, Tense Pink- Sweet, Feminine, Airy

[@kaiyaryberg3219]

how I define color in 3 adjectives^

[@axiezimmah]

The descripton of white was really bad, I would have guessed pink or green. White doesn't come close to that description.

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

At first I thought white because of pure and honest, but then she went to saying natural so I switched to green

[@axiezimmah]

Ed Moritz yeah and warm and happy and such. I would have gone for elegant, light and neutral (pure and honest were right though)

[@INeedYouToBreathe]

For me it was obvious it was white, what other color is pure? Pink, green? nah

[@TheMartiniKill]

what are u studying ? nothing creative i guess, you dont get why white is natural ?? she was actually the most itelligente and objective person on the show, she is basically from sciences

[@miranda824]

I would describe white like this: Pure, light, happy, clean(?), and safe.

[@triplexis6143]

I swear if he ever posted a video of him sad I would literally cry he is the most enthusiastic and happy person I know

[@MrTolito03]

6:10 GAMER GUNK GUY

[@kangaroosky2916]

OMG

[@Bootsii]

REALLY!

[@moanguspickard249]

OMFG HOW TF DID YOU CATCH THAT?!?!? REALLY???

[@uns0ciable4ever]

i absolutely LOVE your channel

[@alejandrosantos5328]

I would describe color as different musical notes. After all, sound and light are both created by waves, and all waves have similar properties. Different colors mean different light frequencies. Different notes mean different sound frequencies. I would describe shape and dimensions of an object as the structure and length of the notes, and the brightness of something as the volume of the music. Sight and hearing are very different, yet they have similar properties because they're both created by waves (sound waves, light waves).That's kinda like how taste and smell have similar properties, yet very different, because taste and smell are both created by chemical interactions. Smell would be like hearing, taste would be like sight. You can smell things all around you and behind you, but you can only taste things that are only in front of you. However, taste gives us more detail much faster about something compared to smell. That's the best I can do though to explain sight 😞

[@BabePandahh]

1. Red 2. Blue 3. Green 4. Pink 5. Red That was horrendous ._.

[@mia-jx2dg]

Kitty Vo I done 1. Yellow 2. Blue 3. Brown 4. Pink 5. Red

[@elia_simon]

yeah their descriptions were awful. i would have guessed yellow, grey, and green. I got the last two right but only because of one saying "pure" for white and the other "love" and "romance" for red.

[@itslilstix]

I got all of them right except White

[@hannahh6458]

DANTEVBALLER saaaammmeeeee

[@anthonytorres7774]

DANTEVBALLER me to but I thought of white then she said if it was a favorite it would be sweet and that threw me off

[@xxfloppypillowxx]

she was referring to Vanilla which is typically white, though not naturally.

[@michela1199]

same i thought it was light blue

[@Matyme]

I knew it was going to be white because of the "pure" and "honest" BS. It made me roll my eyes to the point that I looked like I was having a seizure.

[@CG64Mushro0m]

i think the best way to describe color to a blind person is like saying how its the same with pitch and frequency. you can lower the pitch or raise the pitch of a sound but its still the same sound, the same way with color. an object might have a different color, but its still the same object and everything is the same except for that one aspect.

[@WorldOfDeepThought]

Can you play chess?

[@BedardJ]

Probably not. Too many things to see and would be hard to keep attract of.

[@BedardJ]

A track**

[@EllenWoodbridge]

I am sure he could if he wanted to, their are tactile chess sets available for the visually impaired. My husband is also Blind and we have one.

[@WorldOfDeepThought]

Did he learn it by touching or by imagination?

[@EllenWoodbridge]

touching

[@Bootsii]

Hey, Tommy! I was wondering if you could answer this sometime if you haven't already. I was inspired by your "Getting Lost" video at vidcon to ask you this: What is walking and running like for you? I noticed it's a little different from how sighted people walk and I couldn't help but think to myself it seemed sort of painful on the knees. Thank you!

[@DerpxGames]

I got them all right and I'm color blind is seeing an advantage?

[@DragonicCherry]

Depends, maybe you associate the colours with things you have seen.

[@Dinkymod]

These folks that played the game were awesooome! I love these people. Good vid.

[@allyo3534]

I got the yellow, white, and red right. Harder than I thought.

[@aleflippy1997]

You managed to do even better than me! You certainly deserve some appraise! How a fulfilling day it has been today. I'm glad you made me discover a few interesting channels from people I didn't know, but even more so... I'm glad I found yours. It's impressive how simple it would be to ask or do the research yet most of us know very little about blindness... I learned a lot, and won't stop following you from now on. It's very nice to see how joyful and funny you are even with your handicap, and how you manage to bring the best out of it. I hope I don't sound too misguided or maybe even unwillingly offensive by my choosing of words... The only thing I wanted to say is thank you. Thank you for the time you take to explain your life in such a clever and amusing way!

[@faith5584]

I really liked this is was fun. :)

[@ScotsmanRS]

Could you do a similar challenge where you describe how things feel (textures, shape, etc.) and a sighted person has to guess what it is? :)

[@DaToyGamer]

I got all of them except for White, which I almost guessed but I felt more of a "Pink" vibe

[@drippystaff]

DaToyGamer Yeah, same here. I thought it was white at first but then she said "sweet" so I changed my mind to pink.

[@imaanahmed4965]

same!

[@AlanKey86]

I'll do one. It's a warm colour, happy and bright but also a little sickly. It makes me think of fruit (is that allowed?) and the beach. Kind of.

[@hannahh6458]

Got all of them right except the white...

[@marcusfords5324]

Hannah •-• As soon as she said pure I got it

[@Umbrella2]

That was the most obvious one to me

[@kateg9437]

I thought of green when it was brown, and blue when it was purple. Some of the descriptions were really good, without referencing things of that colour (namely the description of white)

[@MrFindX]

It's okay to be smart!

[@brendandor]

This will be quite a good technique to use as a product designer to come up with new designs, we do use semantics but this is a fun game to do that.

[@cars3378]

Have you ever accidently went to the girls bathroom? I suspect its certain

[@jaznyca653]

Picklerz zebra bathroom signs have brail that's how blind people technically read

[@seigeengine]

The funny thing to me is I had no idea what colour some of these people were talking about, and guessed wrong myself more often than I got it right.

[@spaceytree3099]

Lmao Im not blind but I didn't even know what the fuck colors they were talking about

[@KudoBrothers]

I love this channel and I think the editing is done really well!

[@a3f4cdf]

I was thinking yellow or white until he mentioned the bathroom 😂

[@LifeIsYourInstrument]

I was bad at this game and I can see! You did really well!

[@jacksonbryantfilms]

Wow how did he learn so much about color? Every time he guessed the exact same color I would have. And I can see!

[@rambard5599]

Well, it must be really fascinating to him since he can't see, so he tries very hard to wrap his mind around vision and colour.

[@kylestroup3077]

no...he doesn't wrap his mind around it at all, he has ABSOLUTELY NO idea what seeing means. he can't imagine sight at all. he just takes the adjectives commonly associated with these colors to guess what they were.

[@Hiphopopotamus123]

Tom you should do a film review for the new film Notes on Blindness, it's amazing and absolutely beautiful, there's also a version specifically for blind people.

[@SurrealKangaroo]

The best way I can describe colors to you are they are different textures that only your eyes can feel.

[@EvilTim1911]

SurrealKangaroo That's technically correct because the microstructure of the object you're observing determines which parts of the color spectrum it will absorbe and reflect, so it is indeed a texture only your eyes can pick up on.

[@lilypadgaming2652]

This is exactly the way I would try to describe colors. We think so much alike.

[@tankguy621]

If you ever gained sight do you think you could look at the colors and name what color it is?

[@EmilyITaber]

LOL why is he hiding the card?

[@JayFe0]

I would describe the concept of colours to a blind person using an analogy of musical notes. Some notes work together, like chords, they are consonant. Other colours clash, they are dissonant. Put together in a certain way they can be beautiful, or carry emotional connotations or make a piece of art, or music. A colour wheel would be something like a circle of fifths.

[@misseli922]

I guessed them all right except for purple which I thought was blue

[@patrick86806]

THAT WAS AWSOME! more of these please! i got them all except purple... but is was hard to guess... :)

[@jocool47]

Black is the color you see when you are blind... as in what you see right now is black

[@ahverypro]

jocool47 idiot. That's all I have to say.

[@jocool47]

Perry Liim thats just how i'd explain it lol

[@ambam1420]

+jocool47 if he's blind then how would he see black or darkness? Thats something I can't get my head around like he would see nothing no even darkness right? It's had to explain when we die its hard to explain because it won't be darkness it'll be nothing...

[@memzo947]

Am Bam he would see nothing as if he did not have eyes, the look sense is not there

[@kinggogeta123]

jocool47 being blind is nothing like closing your eyes you literally see nothing. that part doesnt work at all

[@newcantinacrispychickentac7754]

"I get a gold star right?" "Well, no, a red one" I love that

[@jovanjanevski3747]

Color is a visual tone intensity mixture. Simplified, just like auditory for example there are people with quiet deep voices, people with loud high voices and everything in between, that's how visually there are materials emitting or reflecting for example dark red color, or bright violet, or any combination of, or other color and intensity in between. PS: A reflection is just echo.

[@MsHojat]

I got them all right. The 2nd was maybe the most difficult, as I narrowed it down to blue or purple. I went with purple since had it been blue I was confident that there would have been more descriptions than just what she said. The third one was super-easy because he kind-of cheated by saying "earthy" and "people". A decent way to describe brown -even if you're blind- is that it's generally a _physical_ combination of all colors, such as if they were dyes or paints (this is called subtractive color mixing, and theoretically would result in black, but not typically in real-life unless you used a lot of darker or bluish color). In that sense it's really mucky/dirty, and that's another descriptive word he didn't use to describe it either which is quite a dead giveaway. Description for white was very good in my opinion. Very well done without using any particularly cheaty words. Only thing annoying is that white isn't a color by some people's definition, since it doesn't have any color in it, just like black or grays - they're achromatic. Achromatic is a useful way to describe black, white or grays. Red's description was a bit lacking because I think a key aspect of it is that it's considered intense, and sometimes even violent. It was still pretty good though, but "warm, happy, positive emotion" isn't something that I've heard people associate with red at all. General emotion, or anger or love, I have heard though. These are all just social constructs though, not anything scientific, except perhaps certain aspects of brown (mucky/mixed/natural), white (bright, pure), black (dark, pure), gray (neutral), and maybe a couple of others.

[@Sorenle72]

Quite interesting to read the comments. Even people with sight (I presume most can see) disagree of who described the colours poorly and who described well. The first one, the yellow one, I was first guessing orange until he mentioned sour. I'd also guess blue at the second one, the purple one. The third one, the brown one, I guessed green until he mentioned that one can find it in people but then switched over to brown since that also fit with earthy. The fourth one, the white one, I initially thought white, but when she mentioned natural I started to lean towards cyan, teal or light blue and stuck with that until the end. The last one, the red one, I first thought red since it's warm, but I did not really agree with that it is happy or gives positive emotions but stuck with my guess and was certain when she mentioned love for the first time.

[@arese9202]

The yellow description was so good

[@marzipanpig196]

This is so interesting! Thanks for this video. (For red, I would have said angry, sexy, fast, glamorous, etc. I would have thought "red lipstick," "cherry red sleek car," "angry/embarrassed red-face," rather than "red valentine.") How funny that we have such strong associations with colour. And I hate the colour brown, but I recognized it from its description--which sounded so lovely.

[@rasnac]

Instead of describing, I believe the best possible analogy for colours is sounds. Since both sounds and colours are about frequency of waves(one waves of sound, the other waves of light); there is a certain similarity between them. With use of technology, theoratcially this similarity can be used to help blind people experience a version of colours.

[@a6f0y0g2]

Hi Tommy! You can imagine colors like you are experiencing (in your case it’s feeling) different shapes. Colors are just another kind of properties of things, but you don’t feel them, but just see them through your eyes if they are open and there is light. If you put shapes together, it may be kinda like putting colors together. So if you put pinches on a smooth ball, you can feel a pinchy ball. And if you put red and yellow together, you can see an orange color. I don’t know if it helps, because I can‘t imagine not being able to see as well, but colors are properties of matter just like shape, smell and for example height. So if you ask why two different things can be the same color: two completely different things can also be the exact same height! And you can also build a snowman made of poo and it will be the exact same shape as one made of snow 😃😃😃

[@woocifer]

I would assume the best way to describe colour would be through taste. What we relate to colour through taste would be pretty metaphoric.

[@SomeProtagonist]

How I like to explain color is: Light is made of all colours, an object reflects only a part of the light, then the eye cathes the reflection and the brain translates, so as of now our language can not transmit what other people see/think so any colour can be any colour as my red might be your blue

[@justincollins2804]

As a sighted person, I'm guessing what they're describing too... 1st Person - My guess was pink as well, but it turned out to be yellow. 2nd Person - My guess was purple, which was correct, "Somber" is what made me think purple and not blue. 3rd Person - My guess was either brown or green, he didn't give a lot to go off of, but when he said people, I thought brown more than green. 4th Person - My guess was white, but some of what she was saying was throwing me off. Yellow came to mind, but that contrasted other parts of what she said. 5th Person - My guess was red, she explained it well.

[@TheGreatEllipsis]

Hell, I thought purple was blue and white was green too.

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Is this a reupload? Didn't you do one on this before? Just curious.

[@TommyEdisonXP]

We had people talk about colors before, but Tommy knew the color ahead of time. This time we decided to make it more of a challenge for Tommy and the subscribers so they can play along at home. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2K5hnmMpZaYjs0

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

I see thanks!

[@WhiltiernaAria]

this was really creative and fun to watch!

[@erinlisaaulfinger9594]

When I want to describe color, I think of a little story. Like yellow: I'm walking through an open field, and I can turn my face up and feel warmth on my face and arms. Or red: red is angry, it bursts like a balloon that's been popped, and is a very, very hot color. The white description in this video was very similar to how I would probably describe it, but I would probably recall an event in my life or two where white was a key color (baptism, rituals).

[@BryanSchmidtSchmidty]

To be fair Tommy, I think most sighted people could get most of these wrong too. When we're talking about how colors make us feel, it could be different for everyone. For instance, I was thinking about Orange when the color to guess was Yellow. But as always, great content, and very entertaining. Thank you!

[@AKayfabe]

I describe red as not anger but excitement, and like the tension you feel when you flex a muscle for awhile like lifting heavy objects. Like hyperactivity and mania, like warmth when you sit in front of a fireplace. White to me is always the sterile smell of bandaids for some reason.

[@dayangdayang1228]

It was really hard for me to describe colors to a blind person, because colors relies completely through the sense of sight. :D This one is really tough!

[@Fitzroyfallz]

This reminded me of the black book of colours! It's a completely black book with braile and words describing clolours in other senses and raised illustrations.

[@djsyntic]

I would be interested Tommy's take on shades of colors in the same family. For instance, in his imagination how is Forest Green different than Sea Green? Or what's the difference between Jet Black and Pitch Black?

[@IanT820]

I'm convinced Tommy has seen white. He has said before he can tell when he's in a room with light rather than a dark room. So I'm guessing when he senses light it's white (or close to white)

[@matts1572]

I think it's like how people with good vision see with their eyes closed. You can tell when your in a dark room vs a lit one too.

[@101bluedrop]

Nah, you can still tell when your in a dark or light room because your eyelids are thin and still let light through them. Bit like how you can shine a torch on your finger and see it through the other side.

[@MsHojat]

Doesn't mean that you've seen white though, since it could just be light gray compared to black. In fact, with ones eyes closed, it would be more like a medium to dark red compared to black.

[@APaleDot]

I think the problem is that most people describe what they associate with the color, rather than what distinguishes it from other colors, so most of their descriptions can apply equally well to a bunch of different colors.

[@ladyalicent705]

When 45 seconds is up: Person: Holds up a piece of paper with the colour name written on it... Tommy: *Is blind*

[@TheDrexxus]

I couldn't narrow it down to one specific color, but one of my two chosen colors were right every time but one. I was thinking Yellow or Orange for the first Blue or Purple for the next I was thinking maybe Pink or Blue, this one was really tough with the description. Red or Pink for the last

[@gilesja1]

Is that michael tomasetti in the background from the dust off gamer gear video at 6:13

[@avedic]

1:50 shit....i think i'm in love. I've literally never felt that way over some random person online... but yeah, she's beautiful...

[@michellebloch8970]

That was an interesting little experiment. I really enjoyed guessing the colors too and I only got a couple of them right.

[@HooLyKeKyy]

"which means I get a gold star, right?" "well no, a red one" hahahaha cracks me up!

[@kaylee1769]

It was fun playing along with this game! I can see, but I only got red right lol!

[@asdlife2496]

To me, yellow is sort of a warm feeling. Like falling in love, or hearing a great song. Blue is a calm feeling... But there's one question I'd like to ask. What is it like to dream?

[@WillaDaKilla474]

Crazy thing is that people associate different emotions with colours so you can never really understand someone else's reaction to colour even if you could see it just as well.

[@obi-wankenobi5411]

This is actually hard for us to guess too. Maybe because we can't describe color, since we never had to. I thought of blue too, when she was talking about purple.

[@mikek4537]

After living your life without the ability to see, would you even want to take the opportunity to see for the first time? If imagine it would be very scary for you to suddenly see after so many years without it.